IVF Pregnancy Due Dates

I recently found a fabulous tool on one of my favourite websites and I thought that I should share it with everyone.

On the Fertility Friends website is this thing called an IVF Pregnancy Due Date and Fetal Development Calculator. What first struck me about this was the fact that rather than simply working from your LMP (last menstrual period) you could alternatively put in the date of egg collection or ovulation. This is particularly important for those of us who achieved our pregnancy through IVF because the date of our LMP is of little relevance when calculating due dates is it.

But, there's even more to it than that. When you've put in your date you get your due date and a whole load of other REALLY useful information too. There's due dates for multiple births, your own personalised dates for various tests and scans and then a week by week description of fetal development (together with the dates at which you reach these milestones).

But that's not all. The Fertility Friends website is also a great source of information and support. In particular, their message board is fantastic - and free to join. There are a multitude of different forums specific to your own circumstances: whether you are just starting out of your fertility journey, in the middle of treatment (with different forums for different treatments and different stages of treatment), pregnant, dealing with pregnancy loss, taking a breather or deciding to move on. In fact, there's too many for me to do them justice here so I recommend you take a look yourself and give it a go.

I hope you find the whole site as useful as I do - let me know what you think.

Tracy xx